Last modified: 2014-01-22 17:46:57 UTC
The forcerecursivelinkupdate parameter is not reflected in the API response for the Purge module. It is also (to me) unclear whether it actually triggers a cascading link table update since the job queue remains largely unchanged (even for high use templates). To reproduce: 0) Log-in 1) go to https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=purge&format=json&forcelinkupdate=&forcerecursivelinkupdate=&titles=Template%3AWLPA-se (Low use template) Returned: {"purge":[{"ns":10,"title":"Template:WLPA-se","purged":"","linkupdate":""}]} Expected: {"purge":[{"ns":10,"title":"Template:WLPA-se","purged":"","linkupdate":"","recursivelinkupdate":""}]}
If "linkupdate" appears in the result then the forcerecursivelinkupdate will have been passed to the links update job, and the API has no way of knowing anything beyond that. I don't see the point of adding yet another flag to the result. Due to the way links update jobs work, there will not be a large effect on the job queue.
